Alex Gilvarry, M.F.A.
- Associate Professor
- Graduate Faculty
- Graduate Program Director for the M.F.A. in Creative Writing
Department: English
Office: The Great Hall Annex 411
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00 p.m.; and by appointment.
Phone: 732-571-7548
Email: agilvarr@monmouth.edu
Alex Gilvarry was born in Staten Island, New York. He is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, winner of the Hornblower Award for First Fiction (New York Society Library), Best New Voice 2012 by Bookspan, and selected by the New York Times as an Editor’s Choice. He was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 nominee in 2014 and has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Normal Mailer Center. His second novel, Eastman Was Here, published in 2017, was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award and chosen as one of the best books of the year by Esquire magazine. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Boston Globe, Lithub, and have been broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Education
M.F.A., Hunter College
B.A., Hunter College
Books
Eastman was Here, Viking/Penguin 2017.
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, Viking/Penguin 2012.
Multimedia
Courses
Recently Taught Classes
2023 Fall
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
2021 Spring
- Craft of Writing – EN 352
- Manuscript Seminar – EN 644
- Seminar in Creative Writing: Writer’s Craft – EN 615
2020 Fall
- Advanced Creative Writing – EN 451
- Manuscript Seminar – EN 644
- Professional Research With Service Learning – EN 674
- Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction – EN 611
2020 Spring
Frequently Taught Classes
- Advanced Creative Writing (EN 451)
- Craft of Writing (EN 352)
- Creative Writing: Fiction (EN 252)
- Creative Writing: Introduction (EN 251)
- Fiction Workshop (EN 611)
- Literature II: Neoclassical to the Present (EN 202)
- Manuscript Seminar (EN 644)
- Seminar in Creative Writing: Fiction (EN 611)
- Seminar in Creative Writing: Writer’s Craft (EN 615)